Sharp County record., 1887-05-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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to be down with the measles in Madison,
Wis. NJ my adults are also afflicted lhe
public schools have been closed.
TIVE post-ofice inspectors, during the
month of March, made fifty seven arrests
of persons charged with criminal onenses
| against the sanctity of the mail.
A FRESH Zankoffist or Pro-Russian con-
spiracy has been discovered at Sofia
Several men, who formerly were ofncers
in the Bulgarian army, have been arrest
ed for active participation in the new
movement
TITS understood that Lieutenant Colonel
Lasalle has declined an appointment 10
succeed Lieutenant Colonel Scott, de-
ceased, in charge of the publication OF the
rebellion records Assistant Adjutant-
General Vincent is spoken of as likely 70
receive the appointment.
THE locked-out sllversmiths OF New
York, at a meeting on the 18th, decided
not to surrender on any conditions, unless
the bosses withdraw their obnoxious
stipulation in regard to the union.
THE Crown Prince Frederick William OF
Germany is rapidly recovering his health
under the treatment he is receiving at
Ems. His hoarseness has entirely dlsap-
peared, and his appearance indicates COM
plete restoration to health within short
time.
IT is reported that the French Govern
ment WILL if the French and German &C
counts of the Schnaebeles affair prove ir-
reconcilable, propose to submit the mat
ter to the King of Belgium for arbltra-
tion.
COLLECTOR SEEBERGER of Chicago has
been virtually exonerated by the recent
investigation of the charge of violating
the Civil-Service law.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has written
strong letter to the Secretary OF the In
terror in the matter of Guilford Miller,
settler on Northern Pacific lands
IT is understood on very high authority
that Antonio Perazzo, the Italian, who
was tracked to Canada and arrested on
charge of numbering Maggie Albrecht IN
a house of ill-fame at Newark, N. j., some
months ago, has confessed
WILLIAM HENRY O'SULLIvAN, who rep
resented Limerick County in the British
House of Commons for ten years follow
ing 1874 died on the 9th, aged fifty-eight
wears. O'Sullivan was Home Ruler.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
began it's session at Atlanta, Ga., on the
9th.
FIRE and series of explosions de-
stroyed the Bolton Dyeing, Printing and
Bleaching mill at Bronxdale, N. Y, on the
9th.
Miss PALMS, the wealthy Detroit heire IS
to whom ex-senator Jones, of Florida, has
been so strangely devoted is now in deep
mourning for her father, and will shortly
go to Washington for quiet visit 10 her
relative, Mrs. James Hoban.
TUNNEL colIiery, owned by the Phlia'
delphia Il Reading Coal and Iron Com
pany, on the outskirts of Ashland, Pa,
was the scene of disastrous cave-in on
the 9th, resulting in the death OF hve
persons.
HENRY MACKEY, a Brush electric light
lineman at Detroit, Mich, touched live
wire while working on pole on the 21th.
He was fatally injured by falling to the
street. He was married; aged thirty.
BY direction of the President, Major
General Fred II. Terry, in addition to his
present duties, is assigned to the COM
mand of the Department OF the Missouri
until permanent commander may Dc as
signed to the department.
SENATOR c. K. DAVIS made the closing
argument for the defense in the trial OF
Frank Mead for the murder OF Frank
Farnsworth at St. Paul, Mimi, on the
9th, and the case went to the jury at tive
o'clock. At6:2O the jury returned aver
dict of not guilty.
THE Hungarian primate will present
the Pope, on the occasion of the latter's
Jubilee, a beautiful gold chalice, the
weight of which will equal that OF two
hundred and fifty gold ducats.
BLACK fever, accompanied with diph-
liberia, is making terrible ravages among
the people in the valley of st. Maurice,
Quebec. At Mt. Caribou eight deaths
have occurred in one family There is no
prospect of an early abatement Oh the
disease.
JONATHAN W. JoRDoN, a leading lawyer
of indianapolis Ind, died on the 9th OF
congestion of the brain, aged sixty-seven
years. He was the most prominent GRIM
| inal attorney in the State, and had de1end'
| ed over sixty murder cases IN his career,
only one of which was decided against
| him.
MARY HoAR and Maud Mcdonald were
| thrown under an ore train on the Hecla q
| Torch Lake Mich railroad on the even
! ing of the Goth, coupling link breaking
| Miss Hoar had her head cut from her
body, and Miss McDonald's legs were
crushed so badly that amputation was
necessary. Both victims lived at Lake
Linden.
FIRE on the evening Of the 9th de-
stroved the Wabash round-house, situat-
| ed in the southwestern part OF Des
Moines, Ia, containing thirteen locomo'
lives, 1t was a wooden building, and
when the fire was discovered it was under
such headway that nothing could stay the
progress Of the flames. The loss will
scarcely fall below 100000, and may ex-
ceed that sum.
PROF. WERNER, of Berlin, is painting
portraits of all the members OF Crown
Prince Frederick Williams family. They
are intended for present for Queen Vic
toria from German residents of London
on the occasion of Her Majesty's jubilee
PANo, editor of the Bucharest LuptG, has
been sentenced in his absence to two
years Imprisonment and to pay fine OF
81, 900 for describing the King Of Roumania
as an egotist, and adventurer and an
enemy Of his country.
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN promises some
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